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YES; such effect can be obtained from a siren. If a siren be so rotated as to give a note approximating to middle C, the note appears flattened when the ear is placed close to the instrument, such flattening being estimated by different observers (at different times) as from a semitone to a whole tone.
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HARDING, E. The Subjective Lowering of Pitch. Nature 64, 182 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064182c0
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